News About: Goverment
Health insurance saves 33 billion won in medical costs last year
The national health insurance saved up to 33.2 billion won in 12 medical costs last year including medication costs (e.g., cerebrovascular agents and drugs for peptic ulcers) plus cone beam CT and extracorporeal shock...
Government to get tough on prescription of anti-ulcerants
The Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service said on July 15 that it will screen the proper use of all drugs intended for treatment of peptic ulcers during the latter half of this year as the corresponding medic...
Rules concerning biological products eased
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said on July 15 that some of the rules concerning the license of biological products, including biosimilars, have been eased for ameliorating unnecessary procedures in the screen...
Health ministry mulls more quotas for pharmacy college
The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs is considering allocating more students to the quota for pharmacy schools nationwide as the heads of local pharmacy colleges want more quotas.
The ministry said it...
Government urged to intervene in orphan drug market
The government will need to promote the production and marketing of orphan drugs, such as Roche’s Fezeon, by securing a public fund, for domestic clients' wider access to drugs, according to a local professor.
In a...
44 hospitals prescribe less antibiotics in operations
A total of 44 hospitals, including Seoul National University Hospitals, Asan Medical Center and Samsung Medical Center, have prescribed less antibiotics to their patients for eight surgical operations, according to th...
KFDA to amend Korean Pharmacopoeia
The Korea Food and Drug Administration will revise the Korean Pharmacopoeia by ameliorating the testing methods of 28 medicinal products, such as heavy metals, impurities and microbial limits.
The KFDA said this is...
Joint bioequivalence testing to be permitted next year
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said that the joint bioequivalence testing, which has been implemented on a limited basis, would be fully utilized by those companies which may cope with the new guideline to be ...
KFDA to relieve blacklisted drugs over harmful talc
The Korea Food and Drug Administration is considering relieving some of asbestos-containing 1,112 medicines which are wholly subject to scrapping.
The drug agency said on July 9 that it will work out measures to re...
New prescription plan is positive, health ministry says
The new prescription plan, which was implemented on a 10-month trial basis in the National Medical Center last year, were evaluated as “positive”, although there is lack of sufficient verification over the new system....
